Gordon Allan entered
journalism straight from school in Aberdeen in 1951. After seven
years on the local newspapers, interrupted by National Service
in the RASC, he spent thirty years in Fleet Street, mainly as
a sports sub-editor and reporter with The Times. He
lives in Carshalton, Surrey.

There are open or seaside
bowls tournaments going on somewhere almost every week of the summer
in England,
and in this book Gordon Allan
describes his journey round fifteen of them, from Broadstairs in
the east to Teignmouth in the west. He conveys by thumbnail
sketch
the flavour of each place – its background, history and traditions.

The author touches on the perennial difficulty of finding
markers, remembers happy days bowling in Sussex and Devon, and ends
the book by detailing the principal English bowls tournaments.

Paperback ISBN:

978-1-898595-00-7

Paperback Price:

£4.99

Release Date:

August 2001

Page Extent / Format:

48 pp. / 216 x 138 mm

Illustrated:

No

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